INTENSIFIED ANTI-DRUG OPERATIONS A NOTORIOUS drug dealer and a prime suspect in the killing of policeman in San Carlos City is now behind bars after a successful joint operation of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA-Pangasinan) and Dagupan City Police Station (DCPS). Wilbert Castro, 36, aka Toking, a native of…
THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has announced a P30 increase in the daily wage of workers in the private sector, effective January 25 this year. The increase including its implementing Rules and Regulations, was contained in Wage Order RB1-19, for Large Non-Agriculture and Commercial Fishing Establishments issued by…
CASH DOLEOUTS FOR 4Ps – More than a thousand representatives of families registered under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of the government await their turn to receive their monthly allowances to support the education and health of their children. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
FOR OPPRESSION BINMALEY—The Office of the Ombudsman suspended the president of Pangasinan State University (PSU) and a campus executive director for oppression for arbitrarily dismissing a faculty member. In a 10-page decision, PSU President Dexter Buted and PSU Binmaley Campus Executive Director Marcelo Gutierrez Jr were found administratively liable for…
ASINGAN — The suspension order issued by the Ombudsman against Mayor Heidi Chua and Vice Mayor Carlos Lopez Jr. were served Friday morning by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) regional office. DILG Regional Director James Fadrinal, assisted by DILG Pangasinan Provincial Director Agnes de Leon, served the suspension…
OPLAN BILANG BOGA, KONTRA BOGA OPLAN Bilang Boga of the Pangasinan police continue to bear fruits as the campaign against loose firearms intensifies. An official of the Juan Macaraeg National High School (formerly known as Binalonan National High School) surrendered two unlicensed caliber .38 revolver to the Binalonan Police Station….
P1-M FINE, 3-MONTH IMPOUNDMENT TWO mini-buses and one utility van being used for commuter service were apprehended on January 17 by the Land Transportation and Franchising Board (LTFRB) along Tapuac Road in Dagupan City in its continuing drive against colorum vehicles. This brought to five the number of colorum buses already apprehended…
AMID calls for constitutional assembly by the House of Representatives, the head of the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese bats for a constitutional convention to be composed of laymen known for their probity and their intellectual acumen and free of vested interests. Archbishop Socrates Villegas, in his pastoral moral guide dated Jan. 15, wrote, “They must…
MANDATORY DRUG TEST HERE’S a piece of good news for Dagupan residents. The one hundred twenty-five personnel of the Dagupan City Police Station were made to take a surprise mandatory drug test, and all proved negative of illegal drug use. P/ Superintendent Jandale Sulit, OIC-chief of police, led the DCPS…
TO KEEP TOWN DRUG-FREE PERMANENTLY LAOAC — Realizing that after the town has been declared drug-free, the town’s mayor wants several ordinances passed to cope with the bigger problem of how to keep it that way permanently. Mayor Silverio Alarcio said he has recommended to the Sangguniang Bayan to pass…
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